[Public-List] Corner Fiddles on a new Galley Table? Or open corners?

[Rachel]

Hi Jeff,

I would vote for removable fiddles and the open corners.  Unless you  
eat a lot of crunch berries, gumballs, or etc. and like to play with  
your food ;)

For myself, in actual use, I found Scoot Gard type placemats to be the  
most useful for actual eating activity at sea, whereas the fiddles  
were great for doing things like keeping pencils on the table between  
meals.  I say that because a full plate, a glass of water, or a bowl  
of soup are just really good at "high-jumping" if they ever do get a  
running start at the fiddle.  It's still nice to have them though.

I guess part of it depends on your table design, too.  The table I  
used the most (not in an A-30) had a permanent, slender middle section  
with leaves each side that folded down.  The very outer perimeter did  
have permanent fiddles with open corners.  For the "mini table" that  
was permanent, there were removable fiddles for the long sides (which  
of course were in the middle of the table when it was fully up).  It  
was those fiddles that made great "pencil/book holders" when underway.  
(And with the narrowness, even pencils didn't usually get up enough  
steam to jump the fiddle.)

I would have open corners on galley fiddles too, were I choosing.

Rachel
ex-#221


On Mar 30, 2010, at 7:53 AM, Jeffrey wrote:

> I'm building a new gallery table and while I think it would be neat to
> have fiddles wrap all the way around the rounded corners, my wife
> would rather have open corners to facilitate sweeping crumbs from the
> table.


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